endless code paths

Tracking down which other public packages on NuGet.org depend on your libraries can give you a better idea of how your packages are used, and which scenarios are important. It can also provide you with a useful list of things to test to verify that your next release won't cause any breaking changes to packages that depend on you.

NuGet v3 for Visual Studio 2015 introduced a new type of feed designed to work with static json files. Package information is retrieved constructing URLs based on the id of a package and parsing the information on the client. This allows for the feed server to be as simple as a static file host. For this post I'll show you how to use a basic Azure storage container to host the feed, and a tool I've created to build the json files that the NuGet client will read.